Quotes about boo
book kids writing
I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people. George Noory
book laughing perspective
I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be. George Meyer
book way my-way
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. George Michael
book diaries her-beauty
Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. George Meredith
book humorous israel
I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel. George Mikes
book character men
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits. G. Stanley Hall
book writing sweat
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow. G. M. Trevelyan
book writing men
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. G. H. Hardy
book sight people
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoevsky
book writing office
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. Friedrich Nietzsche
book thoughtful thinking
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
book facts new-testament
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
book reading paradox
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
book men ears
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
book writing thinking
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
book passion people
How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
book dumb religion
Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (And maybe even a little ugly on the side) Frank Zappa
book toilets use
Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.
book instruction situation
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book Jeff Lindsay
book reading doors
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. Jeanette Winterson
book home rereading
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
book broken begin-again
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
book cat garden
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
book literature rogues
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
book writing left
I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
book sentences connected
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
book laughing use
The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.
book goes-on bounds
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
book bridges people
We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
book dialogue
You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
book writing mirrors
Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?
book fall lasts
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.
book journey different
Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.